Does QuickFee's (ASX:QFE) Share Price Gain of 31% Match Its Business Performance?

QuickFee Limited (ASX:QFE) shareholders might be concerned after seeing the share price drop 22% in the last week. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last year have been pleasing. After all, the share price is up a market-beating 31% in that time.

See our latest analysis for QuickFee

Because QuickFee made a loss in the last twelve months, we think the market is probably more focussed on revenue and revenue growth, at least for now. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. That's because fast revenue growth can be easily extrapolated to forecast profits, often of considerable size.

In the last year QuickFee saw its revenue grow by 80%. That's stonking growth even when compared to other loss-making stocks. The solid 31% share price gain goes down pretty well, but it's not necessarily as good as you might expect given the top notch revenue growth. If that's the case, now might be the time to take a close look at QuickFee. Human beings have trouble conceptualizing (and valuing) exponential growth. Is that what we're seeing here?

The graphic below depicts how earnings and revenue have changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).

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A Different Perspective

It's nice to see that QuickFee shareholders have gained 31% over the last year. We regret to report that the share price is down 21% over ninety days. It may simply be that the share price got ahead of itself, although there may have been fundamental developments that are weighing on it. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand QuickFee better, we need to consider many other factors. Case in point: We've spotted 4 warning signs for QuickFee you should be aware of, and 1 of them is significant.

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Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on AU exchanges.

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